How to Use reckless in a Sentence

reckless

adjective
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  • He is a wild and reckless young man.
  • He showed a reckless disregard for the safety of others.
  • He spends money with reckless abandon.
  • And the right choice is to stop these reckless attacks.
    — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Cole’s game is a little bit more reckless but in a good way.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
  • Flowers strain on stalks to open all out and, reckless, cast pollen to the future.
    — Marjorie Garvey, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The son, joyful and reckless, moves out at thirteen and joins the Navy at nineteen.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • See, that's the kind of reckless spending that gets you on the radar of Congressperson Nitpick, Coop.
    — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 9 June 2023
  • No doubt many people running with the bulls are brave, but many are reckless.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
  • If convicted of the reckless homicide charge, Leggett faces up to 65 years in prison.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
  • McCoy serve five years in prison on the reckless homicide charge and 15 years on the assault charge, the court filings show.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Both also were charged as adults with four counts of reckless murder.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 21 Apr. 2023
  • This reckless ménage à trois turns all three of their lives upside down.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the cutting may be reckless; there’s the occasional WTF?
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
  • No wild emotional swings like the one that fueled the reckless nights after Sarge died.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But…that is such a grossly reckless act that someone's likely to die.
    — Josh Yager, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Brown, as Monk’s brother, is on a reckless journey to find truth and acceptance as a gay man.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a lot out there that portrays them as this reckless death cult that are just adrenaline junkies.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The scheme to control people’s economies through reckless climate policies must come to an end.
    — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The eight dissidents claim to have acted to stop reckless spending.
    — John Shadegg, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Robert Bauman condemned the reckless driving that police say caused the crash.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2022
  • He was also charged with four counts of reckless murder, state police said.
    — Jamie Morrison, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Rather, the intrigue here lies in the fact that Grande—at least the Grande that projects herself in her songs—comes off as knowingly fickle, even reckless.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • But adding hundreds of billions of new spending is still reckless.
    — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Ronnie Stout, who's charged with reckless arson, appeared in court for the first time Monday.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The dizzy economy was headed for a full-on face plant, a sign of reckless management by the Biden-Harris camp.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There must be an intent to harm with prior knowledge that what was said is false, or a reckless disregard for the truth.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The line was no mere deep cut, and wasn’t spouted by a reckless twentysomething seeking shock value.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • Two others pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment in the first degree and were sentenced to over two years to seven years in prison.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The following November, Brooks was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and 61 counts of reckless endangerment.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2025

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